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Utopos : = Architectural Tropes and Rhetorical Imaginings in the Structures of Utopian Feeling.

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Title/Author:	Utopos :/
Reminder of title:	Architectural Tropes and Rhetorical Imaginings in the Structures of Utopian Feeling.
Author:	Rollo, Dylan Edward.
Description:	1 online resource (331 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	Communication. -
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ISBN:	9798381976694

Utopos : = Architectural Tropes and Rhetorical Imaginings in the Structures of Utopian Feeling.
Rollo, Dylan Edward.

Utopos :Architectural Tropes and Rhetorical Imaginings in the Structures of Utopian Feeling. - 1 online resource (331 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Utopianism, once a powerful means of condemning the state of the world and compelling social change, has been largely degraded and warped into a tool for preserving the status quo and foreclosing radical politics. This orientation against radical political change circulates as a "common sense" adherence to reality, so recuperating the rhetorical resources in utopianism requires us to take seriously fictions presumed politically irrelevant and embrace a queer ethic of failure. I read popular utopias and dystopias as expressions of the public imagination of utopianism, the shared and often unspoken ideas of utopianism's worth. This project is organized around the component parts of the term "utopia"-the cautionary outopia (no-place), the fanciful eutopia (good place), and their impossible yet necessary synthesis: utopia. These are all parts of the "structures of utopian feeling," the respectively dominant, residual, and emergent conceptions of "utopia" in the public imaginary. To examine these texts' perspectives of the "reality" of utopian practice, my criticism of these literary and media imaginings is driven by tropological analysis of their common architectural forms. I identify three architectural tropes, each persisting in its respective structure of utopian feeling: outopia's sublime monumentality, eutopia's technologized mobility, and utopia's architectural dynamism. Through the fixity and undeniable presence of monumental buildings, outopias in novels, films, and video games project the dangers of seeking radical political change. Eutopianism promises brighter futures of individual freedom and a refuge from difference, common today among minoritarian subjectivities in film, popular visual art, and queer leftist internet memes. Finally, I argue that drawn media portraying architectural dynamism show the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of a true utopia, the animation of the impossible vividly dramatizing the inherent and often unacknowledged dynamism of space and rhetoricity of materiality. Through these media I identify tropologies of true utopianism, a material and processual practice of imagining and perpetually deferring paradise.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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